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I was pleased to be part of a panel discussion Tuesday called “ Getting There from Here: Moving Data Science into the Boardroom ,” moderated by Alistair Croll with colleagues Chris Selland of HP Vertica and Scott Chastain of SAS Institute. This panel was part of O’Reilly’s Strata Conference Data-Driven Business Day. It’s amazing to see how the Strata Conference has changed over the last couple of years. With big data becoming truly operational across many different industries, companies are now looking at how to manage, blend and analyze data to make profitable business decisions and fly past competitors. One interesting topic we debated was whether being able to process, analyze and predict outcomes with all this data might drive conformity and ‘dull’ innovation. Will we become so reliant on predictive algorithms and models that we lose confidence in our intuition and not apply enough business judgment into our decision-making? In preparing, reflecting on these and other burning questions before the panel, I was inspired by the athletes competing in the Sochi Winter Olympics. Sage Kotsenburg, who won the Gold medal in ‘Slopestyle’ snowboarding, managed to blend creativity and style...

One of Pentaho’s core beliefs is that you can’t prepare for tomorrow with yesterday’s tools. In June of 2013, amidst waves of emerging big data technologies, Pentaho established Pentaho Labs to drive innovation through the incubation of these new technologies. Today, one of our Labs projects hatches. At the Strata Conference in Santa Clara, we announced native integration of Pentaho Data Integration (PDI) with Storm and YARN . This integration enables developers to process big data and drive analytics in real-time, so businesses can make critical decisions on time-sensitive information. Read the announcement here . Here is what people are saying about Pentaho with Storm and YARN: Pentaho Customer Bryan Stone, Cloud Platform Lead, Synapse Wireless: “As an M2M leader in the Internet of Everything, our wireless solutions require innovative technology to bring big data insights to business users. The powerful combination of Pentaho Data Integration, Storm and YARN will allow my team to immediately leverage real-time processing, without the delay of batch processing or the overhead of designing additional transformations. No doubt this advancement will have a big impact on the next generation of big data analytics. Leading Big...

What do you do when you need to track, store, blend, and analyze over 6 billion financial data transactions with the outlook of daily growth by the millions? edo Interactive, inc is a digital advertising company that leverages payment networks to connect brands with consumers. Their legacy data integration and analysis system took more than 27 hours to run, meaning that meeting daily Service Level Agreements was nearly impossible. However, after only a few weeks of implementing a data distribution on Hadoop, with Pentaho for data integration, edo Interactive was able to reduce its processing time to less than 8 hours, often as little as 2 hours. Minimum timesaving's of 70% quickly precipitated cost savings. With an optimized data warehouse, edo and its clients also spend less time navigating IT barriers. Pentaho’s graphical user interface, removes cumbersome coding of batch process jobs, enabling sophisticated and simplified conversion of data from PostgreSQL to Hadoop, Hive and HBase. edo and its clients quickly gain insights to customer preferences, refine marketing strategies and provide their customers with improved experience and satisfaction. Edo Interactive successfully navigated many of the obstacles faced when implementing a...